You can't hold down Y/ Triangle like years past. It's definitely more difficult for sure, but still doable. Try timing it right and focus on more side to side. I've had a hard time not catching stuff over my head, not sure if jumping decreased or what, but it's kinda ridiculous. Change up your play calling and who you user to throw them off. Being unpredictable is super helpful I've found.
When you know it's going to be a pass, sub in a backup safety at your MLB spot. He'll get better animations. Usually, when I run Nickel, I sub in safeties at both LB spots.
different linebackers have different catch abilities. idk how good your user is, but before i switched to shaz, Montez Sweat was a very good one. idk how or why because the stats didnt indicate he could catch but sweat caught ints like m19 linebackers did. but then i found out sweat is also a great pass rusher and switched to shaz lol
The game does have some problems on defense hopefully a patch coming soon
So when I play defense I usually user the MLB. Does anyone have any pointers to pull off successful user lurks? There have been times where the ball literally gets thrown to a defender I'm right on top of and my defender won't even react to the ball. Also how effective is using L2 because I don't use it at all.